Improvement in peg-cutters



ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. WATT, OF COMO, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEG-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,839, dated August 8, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'WILLIAM M. WATT, of Como, in the county of Panola and State of Mississippi, have invented. certain Improvements in a Shoe and Boot Peg-Cutter, of which the following is a specification:

The first part of my invention relates to the adjustable knives or chisels with slots at their upper sides, so that when the set-screws are passed through these slots into a threaded hole in the frame of the upper part of the scraper they can be lowered or raised in order to cut the pegs in the shoe or boot at once, or as moderately as the operator may desire. These plates are thus adjusted so as to expedite their removal or adjusting for the purpose of sharpening them. There are many ways to hold these chisels in position, either by a wedge or set-screw, as described. I use these chisels in the long-handled shoe-peg scraper, and they are placed directly in front of the scraper on the one end and directly in the rear of the scraper at the other, where the long handle begins.

Figure I is a peg-cutter embodying my invention. Fig. II is a sectional View. I

A is the head of the shoe-scraper, corrugated on the bottom so as to smooth the peg with the face of the leather after B B, frontand rear chisels, have cut the peg off; 0 C, the slots in chisels B B, so that, as the chisels B B are worn away by grinding, they can be lowered and held in position by the thumb or set-screws D D; E, the long handle.

I claim- A shoemakers tool, consisting of handle E, scraper A, slotted chisels B B, and setsorews D D, all constructed, arranged, and operated as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

WVILLIAM M. WATT.

Vvitnesses 'I. S. POINTER, T. E. DAVIS. 

